As a reader of the, in my opinion, excellent book Habits, the news that writer Charles Duhigg released a new book did not escape me. This time the seemingly elusive concept of 'productivity' would be subject. As I, like everybody, often feel my productivity could be better, I was intrigued by the book and its subject.

A lot of my spare time is spent on Bumperdo, a small task management software thingy that helps me and some friends and colleagues to have some illusion of control. I love working on it, not because it's an earth shatterting piece of software (it's good, but there are many like it), but because it helps me gain and maintain some basic programming skills (which I don't need in my day to day work), and because it helps me get some perspective on what building for the web is like when there are people watching and using your app.

This blog is written and maintained by me, Roy Ahuis. I live in Rotterdam, where I work for Coolblue. In my spare time I build and maintain a task management web app that's free to use at Bumperdo.com.